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The purpose of this paper is to develop a novel calculation scheme for the costs of distribution per shipment according to a cost-by-cause principle. We propose to estimate the full costs of distribution routes excluding and including a new consignor. Then, we estimate the marginal costs per...
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We use new data from the 2015 Diary of Consumer Payment Choice to analyze price discounts and surcharges based on the … cash discounts, after controlling for merchant category and dollar value of the transaction. Payment method choice is …. Both merchants’ reluctance to offer price discounts and consumers’ limited response to them lead to the low observed …
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The present article discusses the economic and legal effects of single-product loyalty discounts. It is clear that … arguments concerning the "pro-competitive" effects of such discounts must be judged with skepticism. This applies in particular … to the assumed effects of loyalty discounts resulting from double profit surcharges or falling average costs, as well as …
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infinite future. In this paper I analyze the setting of tariffs in a two-country model taking account of adjustment processes … induces policy makers with a short planning horizon to set lower tariffs because it enhances the short run boom following a … cut in tariffs. Monetary policy that aggressively fights deviations from its inflation target leads to even lower tariffs. …
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to the elimination of tariffs and cuts in non-tariff measures by 25%, is in the range of 1% to 4% of initial consumption …
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commitments under trade agreements (multilateral and regional agreements) and applied tariffs- what is also known as tariffs … equivalent to a level of tariffs between 1.7 and 8.7 percentage points. …
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In this paper the scope of Bergstrom's (1982) results is studied. Moreover, his analysis is extended assuming that extraction cost is directly related to accumulated extractions. For the case of a competitive market it is found that the optimal policy is a constant tariff if extraction is...
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adopted lead to the conclusion that Brazilian tariffs on intermediate goods are, in general, considerably higher than those of … these tariffs, while in Brazil, at the end of the period analysed, tariffs on intermediates increased both in aggregate …, with few exceptions, Brazilian tariffs on intermediate goods are generally lower than the aggregate average tariff that …
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import tariffs on a destination market are associated with less pricing-to-market, whereas non-tariff measures are associated …
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country and the (developed) rest of the world. Despite labour being the only factor of production in this model, tariffs (in …-voter's preferred reliance on tariffs versus income taxes in order to effect the desired redistribution. Using data from 44 countries we …
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